Why Blackberry is better than PPC when travelling..
I have been a long time user of both the BlackBerry and PPC platforms. Recently, I have switched to BB away from PPC due to the ease of operation and the fact that a BlackBerry removes complexity from your life.
Having arrived in Paris this morning, I decided to give both platforms a fair chance. When ariving this morning, I switched on my BlackBerry and I could send and receive messages within a minute. I even tested the responses with my colleague also on a BlackBerry device and found a 4 second response from send a test message from my BB to his.
Arriving at my hotel, I decided to give my PPC device a chance. Once the device was booted up, I could get a GSM signal, I could see that there was GPRS, but I could not connect to it to retrieve my mail. And there is the problem, when traveling and connecting to mobile data networks, you need varying user credentials to connect to these networks. If you do not have the network's details, your PPC device is useless.
So how do we resolve this issue. Well for one, you could create an aplication that will have the credentials for all the mobile roaming partners installed on the device. When you arrive at your destination, just change your credentials to those required by the host country.
Otherwise, you can always get a BB...
***Posted on behalf of Franco Rothner***
Having arrived in Paris this morning, I decided to give both platforms a fair chance. When ariving this morning, I switched on my BlackBerry and I could send and receive messages within a minute. I even tested the responses with my colleague also on a BlackBerry device and found a 4 second response from send a test message from my BB to his.
Arriving at my hotel, I decided to give my PPC device a chance. Once the device was booted up, I could get a GSM signal, I could see that there was GPRS, but I could not connect to it to retrieve my mail. And there is the problem, when traveling and connecting to mobile data networks, you need varying user credentials to connect to these networks. If you do not have the network's details, your PPC device is useless.
So how do we resolve this issue. Well for one, you could create an aplication that will have the credentials for all the mobile roaming partners installed on the device. When you arrive at your destination, just change your credentials to those required by the host country.
Otherwise, you can always get a BB...
***Posted on behalf of Franco Rothner***
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